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The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) officials have lauded Rwandan cross-border transporters for embracing the yellow card scheme, noting that it has helped l...

The selection: Thursday, 5 November In Kinshasa, the curtain falls on 10th African Economic Conference (AfDB) "The state should play a critical role in the transformation of econ...

About 30 finance ministers from across the world have confirmed attendance of the Development Co-operation Forum high-level symposium in Kampala. It is expected to contribute to...

The sixth edition of UNIDO’s Least Developed Countries’ (LDC) Ministerial Conference will be held in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, from 26 to 27 N...

“Major economic progress is possible in Africa and can lead to improvement in the standard of living but we must work on structural transformation so that Africans can benefit fr...

This year’s Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness in Africa: Promise & Performance highlights the significant progress on the part of African governments and their inter...

Leaving no one behind in the development agenda will require taking bold steps by African governments including strengthening the role of state in economic transformation to addres...

The one-day workshop for the validation of the report on banking services and Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) Consultation ended on 30 October 2015 in Abuja, Nigeria. The objec...

Least developed countries (LDCs) welcomed on 2 November what they said were real efforts by members of the WTO to implement a pledge to provide LDC services and service suppliers w...

Speaking at an event marking the 20th anniversary of the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Agreement, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo said that the work in this area “often goe...

The selection: Wednesday, 4 November Underway, in Geneva: the SACU trade policy review (WTO) As of end 2014, South Africa (on behalf of SACU) maintained definitive anti-dumping m...

Senior Trade Officials from the Governments of the five Member States of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and the Executive Secretary of SACU, Ms Paulina Elago, gathered i...

At a meeting of all WTO members in Geneva on 3 November, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo presented a suggested process to develop a Ministerial Declaration for the WTO’s 10th M...

Government has identified a total of N$4 billion of internal savings for the 2015/16 financial during the Mid-Year Budget Review process. These funds will now be relocated to urgen...

South Africa has addressed the technical issues relating to market access of United States agricultural products raised during the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) review ...

In a joint statement released and endorsed by nearly 200 organisations across Africa and India on the occasion of the Third India-Africa Forum Summit that took place in New Delhi l...

As Africa is emerging to become a centre of economic growth, strong and well-developed national intellectual property systems can help the continent unlock its citizens’ creativi...

The Chair of the agriculture negotiations, Ambassador Vitalis of New Zealand, told WTO members on 30 October that export competition in agriculture is broadly believed to be a poss...

The Group of Twenty (G-20) advanced and emerging market economies has made progress in reducing their large external current account imbalances and some progress on internal imbala...

China’s trade with Africa is only 5 percent of its global trade total, according to 2011 figures from Global Trade Atlas. But its impact on the continent is profound. Equally so,...